Islam The Way of Life

Allah Taãla says in the Noble Qurãn, 'You are the best of nations sent to man. You command good and forbid evil and you believe in Allah'. (Aali Imraan).
Allah Taãla states that one reason for this Ummah being titled as the best of Ummah, is the practice of commanding good and preventing evil'.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

This jama’ah which has been obligated upon the Mus-
lims is the Qurashi khilafah that Hudhayfah Ibn al-Yaman
 was ordered to adhere to, and it is built upon pillars just
as Islam is built upon pillars. The Prophet  said, “And I
command you with five matters that Allah has command-
ed me with: Listening, obeying, jihad, hijrah, and jama’ah,
for indeed he who splits from the jama’ah so much as a
hand span has removed the noose of Islam from his neck
until he returns, and whoever calls by the call of Jahiliyyah
is from the people of Hell.” A man said, “O Messenger
of Allah, even if he prays and fasts?” He said, “Even if he
prays and fasts. So call by the call of Allah who has named
you Muslims, believers, and slaves of Allah” (Reported
by at-Tirmidhi from al-Harith al-Ash’ari). Therefore, the
Jama’ah of the Muslims which we have been ordered to
cling to, adhere to, and bite onto with our molars, and
without which the rule of Islam is not manifested in the
land, is built upon five pillars after the pillars of Islam:
Hijrah, listening, obeying, jama’ah, and jihad, and there
is no listening, obeying, or jama’ah without bay’ah and an
imam, there is no hijrah without iwa and nusrah (giving
refuge and support), and there is no jihad without i’dad
(preparation), ribat, and qital (fighting).
The rightly-guided khalifah, ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattab 
said, “Indeed, there is no Islam except with jama’ah, and
there is no jama’ah except with imarah (leadership), and
there is no imarah except with obedience” (Sunan ad-
Darimi).

Monday, September 25, 2017

Dhirar bin Amr (R.A) said: “I have spent a very long time in jihad and my heart was longing to hajj. I made my preparations to go and then went to greet my brothers. I visited Ishaaq bin Abu Farwah to tell him good-bye. He asked me, “Where are you going?” I said: “I am going on hajj,” He said: “Has your opinion on jihad changed or what?” I said: “No! Its just that I have been here on jihad for a long time and I was longing for hajj and visiting the House of Allah”

“He told me: Dhirar! You should not do what you love, but you should do what Allah loves. O Dhirar, don’t you know that the Messenger of Allah only made hajj once, but then spend his life fighting in jihad until he met Allah. O Dhirar! If you make hajj then you are rewarded for your hajj or umrah. But if you are posted in jihad or fighting and protecting the backs of Muslims, then if that House is visited by 100,000 pilgrims or whatever number, you would be getting the reward of everyone of their hajjs and the hajj of every believing man or woman until the Day of Judgment! Because whoever protects the believers is like the one who protects them from the time of Adam until the Day of Judgment. You are also rewarded for fighting the nonbelievers from the day Adam was created until the Day of Judgment because whoever fights them today is like the one who fights them from the day Adam was created until the Day of Judgment. You are also rewarded for every letter revealed in the Torah, Gospel and Quran because you are fighting to protect the light of Allah from being extinguished.”

“O Dhirar bin Amr! Don’t you know that there is no one closer to the status of prophethood than the scholars and mujahideen? I said, “And how is that?” He said: “Because the scholars are the ones who fulfill the role of the Prophets in guiding others to the truth and teaching it to them. While the mujahideen are the ones who fight for what the Prophets have brought and strive to make the word of Allah the highest and the word of the nonbelievers the lowest” Dhirar said: “I decided to give up hajj and remain in jihad until I die and meet Allah”